Quotes About Learning

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Some of his newly acquired knowledge brought pain, as knowledge is apt to do.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

What can I give for Your knowledge Of when to expand And when to contract— This instructed, more academic college Of when to act?

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

Ik weet niet wat een concubine is en ook niet wat je ermee in bad kunt doen. Ik dacht dat het een spons was.

y Aráoz ya había aprendido que el miedo es una excelente llave para guardar cosas en la memoria.

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it.

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence.

You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

Read the great stuff but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind-set that mistakes are poisonous often freezes us into inaction

refuse to accept assertions blindly. Challenge everything and everyone—including your teachers. Don't be intimidated. You are the best authority on what you don't understand—trust yourself: don't be afraid to ask the questions you need to ask, and be brave enough to change your thinking when you uncover a blind spot.

In everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamental concepts and simple cases. Once is never enough. As you revisit fundamentals, you will find new insights. It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort; however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see your true abilities soar higher and faster.